Posts Tagged ‘fonts’

Save The Planet, Use Garamond

The next time you think to yourself that you’d like to do more for the environment, just remember to consider your font choices on future design projects. Matt Robinson and Tom Wriggelsworth (who has an awesome name) decided to draw out large scale type specimens of popular fonts to measure ink usage of each. They used the remaining ink in the ballpoint pens as their means of measurement. Expectedly, Impact scored low “green” marks while the comparatively lean Garamond and Courier were at the top of the class. More pictures of the process after the jump.

Read More • 5 Footnotes • Posted by: Jay B • 05/26/2010 •

Visual Brand Experience Alphabets

Quipsologies turned me on to this octopus alphabet that eventually turned me on to the plethora of other found object alphabets on Visual Brand Experience. My favorites are the Google Maps and Semi-Truck alphabets as well as the Driven Font I just posted about. There are more selections from the long list after the jump.

Read More • No Footnotes • Posted by: Jay B • 05/04/2010 •

Timba Smits

Fontopoly

Aside from having one of the coolest names around, Timba Smits has some great work to go along with it. Cody loves to tell me and Casey that all we talk about is photography gear, but when he speaks all I hear is stuff about fonts come out of his mouth. I think this poster/game idea by Timba may be what I get him for his birthday.

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Read More • 1 Footnote • Posted by: Jay B • 04/07/2010 •

Note Cards

Let’s jump rope!

The internet, it’s open.

Not your typical Walgreen’s pharmacy.

It’s called the spoon prank, and it is hilarious.

Brine Icicles don’t mess around. They’re killer.

Would you ride a giant spoke-less ferris wheel?

Stop annoying your neighbors with these cheap soundproofing techniques.

One of our favorite Austin spots receives FFFest praise for their “Slayer Dog”

One used time traveling DeLorean for sale. $600,000 OBO.

How good at Kerning are you? Why not test yourself?

It’s October, so why not celebrate with some Dia De Los Modernists posters?

While we’re talkin’ food, how about a pencil sharpener that dispenses parmesan pencil shavings? Yum!

Need to peel an entire head of garlic in under 10 seconds? Do it with two bowls.

This is the kinda Garden Gnome that lets people know you mean business.

Darth Vader blows some hot air.

You really need to be following Adam Garcia’s sketchbook blog.

That’s a really cool fountain. I want that in my yard.

Hey Portland! Cheat Local!

Marty McFly and Doc Brown have a backstory finally.

It’s the cartoon color wheel.

What if Charles Schulz wrote Jaws?

If there’s anything you learn from this, it’s that you shouldn’t get a discount taxidermist.

Not that you don’t already, but keep in mind that chain emails are bad.

I’m all for this kind of nuclear proliferation.